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Three-Tier Architecture

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About This MicroSim

A vertical three-tier architecture (Presentation → Application → Data) with a Trace a Request animation. Pick a workload (product page, loan application, monthly report) and watch a request travel down through the tiers and the response travel back up.

Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives

By the end of this activity, students will be able to:

  1. Identify which tier owns a given responsibility
  2. Trace a request through three tiers and a response back